Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/1/22: Encryption Explained 2022

Notes From The Electronic Cottage | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell We’re hearing a lot about encryption these days. Some in law enforcement think it is a bad thing. Others think it is the best way to protect personal communications and privacy. But what is encryption and why are there such different perceptions of encryption in today’s digital world? Here’s a start of an answer. About the host: Jim Campbell has a longstanding interest in the intersection of digital technology, law, and public policy and how they affect our daily lives in our increasingly digital world. He has banged around non-commercial radio for decades and, in the little known facts department (that should probably stay that way), he was one of the readers voicing Richard Nixon’s words when NPR broadcast the entire transcript of the Watergate tapes. Like several other current WERU volunteers, he was at the station’s sign-on party on May 1, 1988 and has been a volunteer ever since doing an early stint as a Morning Maine host, and later producing WERU program series including Northern Lights, Conversations on Science and Society, Sound Portrait of the Artist, Selections from the Camden Conference, others that will probably come to him after this is is posted, and, of course, Notes from the Electronic Cottage.

The post Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/1/22: Encryption Explained 2022 first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.